NABCEP and Job Security featuring Shawn O’Brien President and CEO of NABCEP

Shawn O’Brien is probably well known by most of our audience, since we talk more about technical PV and storage topics, than any podcast I know of. If you have even been to a solar conference in the USA, you probably have been in the presence of Shawn and Sean, perhaps both at the same time!
 
We are leading up to the NABCEP conference in Reno next week, the week of March 24th! Be sure to be there and you can also take Sean’s PV Associate class at the conference, so sign up here: https://www.heatspring.com/courses/nabcep-pv-associate-training-live-from-the-2025-nabcep-ce-conference?aff_id=t3nlgw
Or for the NABCEP Conference, go to www.nabcep.org
 
Sean will also be there podcasting at the NABCEP conference along with famous podcaster Nico Johnson of Suncast, so check it out!
 
Topics Covered:
Job Security
Different NABCEP Certifications
Non-PV and ESS Certifications-Wind and Solar Thermal<
Most NABCEP Letters after your name
Certifications vs. licenses vs. credentials
PVO&M Associate Credential
Emeritus status
Retired status
Board eligible status
Online testing = virtual testing environment
NABCEP Certified Locator
Unethical solar salespeople
NABCEP Code of Ethics
NABCEP Company Accreditation
NABCEP ANSI Accreditation
JTA = Job Task Analysis
IREC and NCCER using PVIP JTA
PVIP JTA is open source
 
Check out Shawn O’Brien here:
www.nabcep.org/about-us/nabcep-staff-members
www.linkedin.com/in/shawnwobrien  
Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking Sean’s classes at www.heatspring.com/sean